In the old days, when home taking was skill in music (and never did kill music) we used to make and receive mix tapes, a bunch of their favourite songs, recorded from vinyl on to a cassette tape, with all the space filled as best you could and the order of the songs – the sequence – almost as important as the choice of tracks itself. Those days are probably long gone, I cannot remember the last time I put a cassette into a cassette player, although we did go to a vinyl party not too long ago where we all turned up with ancient 45s and sat around reminiscing about the good old days, drinking and inevitably having a good-old fashioned bop.
Meanwhile, the modern-day equivalent of the mixtape is the playlist, do people actually share those? But for those of us who write and record our own music, there’s a use to be had from the playlist, here’s one I did with some of my stuff on SoundCloud. About 30 minutes should fit onto one side of a C60 cassette…